Posts Tagged ‘William Shakespeare’
Young poets to stage Richmond-set ‘Romeo and Juliet’
Richmond Artists With Talent will perform Saturday a one-night-only urbanized version of Romeo and Juliet, swapping William Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter verse for street slang and slam poetry in a familiar tale of two star-crossed lovers — this time from the wrong sides of the tracks. Te’s Harmony, written by Donte Clark of RAW Talent, presents…
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Richmond Artists With Talent, part of Richmond’s Making Waves Education Program, are creating their own take on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet using a mix of modern language, Shakespearean verse and spoken-word poetry. The production will also be the subject of a documentary film.
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